Canada tweaks twin citizenship rule, permitting all generations to use | EUROtoday

Pledging allegiance to ice hockey, Celine Dion and poutine has simply develop into simpler for U.S. residents.

Late final 12 months, the Canadian authorities amended the Citizenship Act to grant Canadian citizenship to a wider pool of individuals searching for twin citizenship via their household lineage. Before the revised legislation went into impact on Dec. 15, the nation restricted Canadian citizenship to the first-generation youngsters of a Canadian dad or mum. Now, all generations who have been born exterior of Canada and have direct Canadian ancestry can develop into Canadian residents, so long as they possess the right paperwork and fall inside the right authorized provisions.